Re: Criminal Records Expunged for St. Louis Gun Couple

moviePig <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:

On 6/20/2024 1:03 AM, anim8rfsk wrote:

moviePig <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:

On 6/18/2024 9:41 PM, BTR1701 wrote:

In article <v4t2ai$1imbc$1@dont-email.me>,
"Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:
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BTR1701 <no_email@invalid.invalid> wrote:
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ST. LOUIS (AP) - A judge has expunged the misdemeanor convictions of a St.
Louis couple who waved guns at racial injustice protesters outside their
mansion in 2020. Now they want their guns back.

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I had no idea that four years later, this still hadn't happened.
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It was a gated community, which are all over St. Louis. They were
trespassing.

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Apparently 'trespassing' is a meaningless term when you're doing it for
'social justice'.

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Don't you even *pretend* there's a built-in tug-of-war between
"trespassing" and "peaceable assembly"?

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They broke through a locked gate to get into the neighborhood and lied that
it was simply their route to get somewhere else because there’s only the
one way in and out of the community. So they weren’t passing through. They
broke and entered.

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Then, sure, I'd be royally pissed, too ...but still must ask whether
deadly force is an appropriate threat to protect one's lawn.
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 Absolutely yes.
 But all they did was display their weapons. To a trespassing mob in front
of their house.
 

On 10 July, city police searched and seized both of the guns from the couple. About a month later, St Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner charged both with "unlawful use of a weapon", which is a felony. The complaint said that both had displayed their semi-automatic weapons "readily capable of lethal use, in an angry or threatening manner".